Marty Gold, an independent Winnipeg journalist, critiques Justin Trudeau’s blackface scandal apology—delivered to a 300-person audience with minimal reaction—and CBC’s biased election coverage, like prematurely hyping Uzoma Zaguara as Manitoba’s first Black MLA while ignoring Audrey Gordon’s prior win. He highlights Josh Rackless’s Green Party BDS opposition as the boldest candidate stance yet, contrasts Trudeau’s evasive leadership with progressive parties’ anti-Semitic ties (NDP’s Bolderis, Nima Sharouf; Liberal’s Samir Zubairi), and predicts a Conservative minority government due to Trudeau’s credibility collapse. Gold’s independent reporting, banned by Facebook but widely shared, exposes media double standards and election integrity risks. [Automatically generated summary]
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Justin Trudeau blames us all for his little racism problem in an appearance in Winnipeg.
Now, what was it like to stand in the front row of one of the worst days of Justin Trudeau's life?
We'll find out today.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
It is something absolutely unacceptable to do.
And I appreciate calling it makeup, but it was blackface.
And that is just not right.
It is something that people who live with the kind of discrimination that far too many people do because of the color of their skin or their history or their origins or their language or their religion face on a regular basis.
And I didn't see that from the layers of privilege that I have.
And for that, I am deeply sorry.
That, friends, is a clip from Justin Trudeau's never-ending apology tour as more and more and I guess more images of him performing blackface come out requiring more and more and well more explanations and more and more and more excuses.
Apparently the latest excuse for dressing up in blackface so many times he can't even keep track anymore is that Justin Trudeau was just too rich to know better and just too dumb to care if I'm paraphrasing him correctly and I'm pretty sure I am.
Now that latest groveling session where Trudeau claims to be taking responsibility for his actions but at the same time is also facing absolutely no real consequences for his atrocious behavior took place in Winnipeg.
Now if you haven't seen, our friend Andrew Lawton from the True North Center has been prohibited from going on the liberal media bus by the Liberal Party.
You see Andrew's just not liberal approved.
So Andrew's currently chasing Justin Trudeau and his gaggle of sycophantic journalists, journalists who haven't uttered a word in defense of Andrew's right to report all across the country.
There are no skeptical journalists in the media bus.
So, my guest tonight actually had a front row seat to that Winnipeg Subfest.
And I wanted to have him on the show because he's one of the few non-liberal approved journalists to get front row access to Trudeau at all in this election campaign.
So, joining me tonight to discuss what it was like to have delicious courtside seats for one of the worst days of Justin Trudeau's life, the atrocious CBC coverage during the recent Manitoba election, and the growing scourge of anti-Semitism allowed to fester in Canada's progressive parties is independent journalist Marty Gold from the J.C. in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon.
me now to talk about the federal election Justin Trudeau's whistle stop visit to his town and a whole host of other issues happening in the federal election and a little bit about the Israeli election because I'm not sure anybody really understands it is independent Winnipeg-based journalist Marty Gold.
Hey, Marty, thanks for joining me.
Thanks for having me again, Sheila.
Let's start off with the Manitoba election.
That's come and went.
I think your election predictions were pretty close.
But CBC was pretty darn terrible during that election campaign, I suppose the way they are in every single election campaign.
CBC started out, like stumbled out of the gate by, as we discussed my previous appearance, by running with a poll without taking two seconds to actually look at anything beyond the so-called polling results.
There was no background information about the polling company at all on the website.
It is an unknown player in the polling game.
The reporter Bryce Hoy evidently could not wait to get it up, scoop everybody on a Friday afternoon.
By Saturday morning, Dougal Lamont and the Liberal Party had pointed out that, among other things, that made this poll showing the NDP and the Conservatives neck and neck at 31%, that anybody scratching the surface would realize there was deep connections between the NDP and the pollster, who then had to say, yeah, these results, I got to look at them.
And two days later, the results from Northern Manitoba were deemed to have been overweighted.
And lo and behold, the poll results were very close to what the final result was in terms of where everybody rested.
I don't recall CBC ever explaining how they went with a poll that was, and this could have been a kid in grade six, could have put a poll out with a fancy website.
And because it showed Wab Canu in a horse race with Brian Palliser, they would have run it.
Didn't see any explanation for it, didn't see any apology for it.
And then after the campaign, CBC, I mean, as the votes were still being counted, really, they outdid themselves by proclaiming a particular MLA from the NDP as Manitoba's first elected black member of the legislature.
Uzoma Zaguara is a darling of the left-wing media in Winnipeg.
She is the disciple, a disciple, of Nahani Fontaine.
And she's got a great presence.
I attended one of the town halls I attended.
She was a speaker on behalf of the NDP.
And, you know, she is the source of probably the best joke that came out of the end of the campaign Where on Twitter, someone noted that with her election, that Brian Pallister was now the second best basketball player at the legislature.
She was not only a star with the Westman around 2004 or 500, 6, the U of W, but was on Canada's national team.
That was, as Scott Taylor, my old friend and colleague said, that wins Twitter today, which it did.
However, what lost Twitter was the way CBC then immediately started to portray her election.
They ran a headline that she made history as the first black MLA elected to the Manitoba legislature.
Within, you know, not long, I see this, and right away I'm going, what are you talking about?
What about Audrey Gordon?
Like, she's not the first.
This isn't a race to count the ballots.
Somebody being declared first is irrelevant in the annals of history.
This has, it's not like which twin was born first.
It's completely irrelevant which news desk declared somebody elected before somebody else.
CBC didn't give a crap.
They saw the opportunity to glorify Uzoma again and proclaim her the first elected black legislator within 10 minutes of me tweeting, hey, that's not right because they're all sworn in at the same time, which actually will be the day that this airs on the 25th of September.
So the headline was changed to trio of black MLAs make history by winning seats in the legislature.
But even then, they couldn't help themselves.
And in the story that they followed that one with, where they talked about a Saguara colleague, Jamie Mose is knocked off, the only conservative cabinet minister to lose, Colleen Mayer, Métis, a member of the Métis Nation, was minister of, I think, crown services.
Colleen was knocked off in St. Vital, which has been traditionally an NDP riding for the most part.
It's a battleground every time.
And Audrey Gordon.
So now the follow-up story is: let's meet our 13 rookie MLAs.
And CBC leads off, of course, with their favorite basketball player.
Now, I sent you the, like word for word, what was written.
And they did, they wrote this up in a way where they talked about she's a nurse, a member of women's health clinic boards, they name the place, experience in working with addictions and poverty, history as an athlete, the teams that she made, mentors young athletes, first black, one of the first black MLAs, first black queer MLA, because she's got to be first at something, but she can't be the first black anymore.
So let's bring up something completely irrelevant.
Right.
Completely irrelevant to the credentials of anybody running for public office is who or what they sleep with.
First black queer MLA, building on previous community work with the queer people of color Winnipeg.
So they've established her woke credentials out the in-yang, right?
Yeah.
They take three paragraphs quoting her on different matters, in particular this reflecting our communities, and that she founded this queer activist group, I guess is what it's called.
All right.
And then they mentioned she was one of their top CBC top 40 under 40 finalists.
So they put her over seven or eight different ways, four paragraphs quoting her.
Now they go to Audrey Gordon, conservative that was elected in South Dale, pretty much adjacent to St. Vitale.
And Audrey's run before, I think she ran provincially and federally and lost previously.
And they go through her background.
25 years experience working in the public sector, worked for the regional health care, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority as director of the home care program, a master's of this, a bachelor of arts, certified in counseling, served on a number of education and health boards, and has a volunteer at her local church.
Now, that doesn't have nearly the detail that you heard about the NDP candidate.
And I guess if Audrey Gordon was not heterosexually married for 33 years, but was a queer person, I guess they'd have to come up with some other way of making the NDP MLA first at black and something and something.
So I went to the candidate website going, you know, that's if that might be grade 12 level journalism about it about a candidate.
Might be, okay, senior high.
Audrey, in the first paragraph, extensive public service experience, active community volunteer, and a small business owner.
Now, you would think that somebody being a business owner is significant in their entry into government, at least for people that care if their elected officials know anything about business.
She's not just experienced in the public sector, director of strategic initiatives at the WHA with 15,000 clients and 4,500 staff under her direction.
Successfully implemented projects ranging from child care to long-term care, improving the delivery of health care.
Now, improving the delivery of health care, when healthcare was the overriding issue in this Manitoba election, you'd think this is something that journals go, wow, on the government benches, this is somebody who has the experience to tell Brian Palliser what it's like.
Not to the CBC.
Why mention actual qualifications?
Now, before she got to the WHA, Audrey Gordon, special assistant to the Minister of Health, assistant to the Deputy Minister of Labor and Immigration, Director of the Multiculturalism Secretariat.
These are major jobs inside ministerial offices with access to cabinet.
This isn't just somebody who worked in the public sector for 25 years, like she was, you know, stamping application forms at a welfare office.
But again, to CBC, oh, they mentioned her BA degree, didn't mention she was Dean's list, left out one of her certificates in change management, which, considering what the Palliser government is doing, is important that people understand the nature of change management.
Even her volunteering was diminished.
I didn't see anything, although I'm sure she's involved in her church.
I didn't see anything about it in this candidate write-up.
They might have looked at another.
She volunteers a Salom Mission.
Salom Mission is not only a homeless shelter, but as a soup kitchen.
They feed people.
They're in the midst of a capital campaign to expand to, I think it's 300 beds for interim shelter for the homeless.
People that volunteer for Saloon Mission, they're doing it for the glory, believe me.
Now, on the other hand, there are a lot of conservatives that volunteer there.
Maybe that's why CBC is not aware of how important it is, how significant it is.
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You're going and naming where the NDP candidate has volunteered.
You know, women's health clinic.
I mean, that has a certain status, particularly among the left.
Why not mention Saloon Mission?
The fact that she's volunteered with the Arthur Morrow Center for Peace and Justice.
So to summarize, here's a candidate who is second in the list of meet your rookie MLAs behind their favorite, okay, who's a business owner, has worked at two ministers' offices of the highest level, delivered programming employing 4,500 people, had an extra professional certificate, was a dean on the dean's list for one of her degrees, directed the multicultural division, which again,
CBC being woke, you'd think you would make sure your audience knew that she's involved in not just multicultural affairs, but multicultural funding decisions, volunteers at a homeless shelter in a soup kitchen.
They didn't get one quote from Audrey Gordon for their profile of her.
They diminished her professional and community standing as much as they possibly could.
They ignored the fact that of all the rookie MLAs who were elected, 13 new faces, she is by far, by far, the most likely to end up in a cabinet position and have actual impact on the lives of Manitobans.
But to CBC, she's the wrong kind of black woman.
Right.
She's the wrong kind of rookie MLA.
She's from a Commonwealth country.
So she didn't face the adjustment, the struggle that Asaguara from Nigeria, and Jamie Moses, I don't recall where he was from.
I think it might have been Nigeria too, one of the other NDP, the third black MLA that was elected.
She's the wrong kind, literally.
And, you know, I thought of a whether to say this publicly, but I could draw no other conclusion.
If she was an NDP candidate and elected by the NDP, we would have heard all sorts of things.
But instead, she's from a Commonwealth country in a heterosexual marriage for 33 years.
She's church-going and conservative.
CBC is not going to quote her.
CBC is not going to tell the public what her extensive, you know, she's more qualified for cabinet than a number of people that have been put in cabinet in this province in this century so far.
And CBC, you know, first they try to elevate Asaguara by saying that she's first to being elected, which was not really the case and not relevant.
And then they still find a way to push their favorite and try to dampen down somebody from the Conservative Party, Audrey Gordon.
And I saw Premier Pallister greet Audrey when she came in.
It was a tight race until I have a feeling it was the advance poll that put her over by 500.
It was within about 100 votes up until then against the NDP candidate, a teacher who I revealed had garnishment orders executed.
It's amazing how if you're in a financial advisor, you can lose your license for it.
But if you're like on the public payroll, a teacher, Nanny Fontaine, for instance, in MLA, had a garnishment for not paying a speeding ticket.
Gordon beat Mishkowski, and she was very emotional when she walked into the hall because she felt she had almost let the team down.
And Pallister, and you saw the pictures on my blog, Pallister was comforting Audrey Gordon.
Don't worry about it.
I watched him talk to her, like face to face, the respect that Brian has.
Everybody respects Audrey Gordon, except for the CBC.
You know, we saw a lot of the same things happening in the Alberta election.
We had some highly qualified female conservative candidates.
The one that comes to the top of my head is Ava Kyriakos.
She is a persecuted Christian from the Middle East, highly qualified woman.
And she had made some comments about Islamic extremism, which makes sense since she herself experienced that persecution while in the Middle East and she was basically run out of her ability to be a candidate.
And she's the perfect kind of candidate, accomplished woman, understands the issues, a minority if you care about those sorts of things.
And yet, because she said the wrong things, she was excoriated by the likes of the CBC and the left, although I'm repeating myself by making a distinction there.
And she wasn't able to.
She didn't say the wrong thing.
But she didn't say the wrong things.
She didn't.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine Sharansky in Israel?
Let's say he had emigrated, Nathan Sharansky had emigrated to North America and started talking about his experience being persecuted by the Kremlin, being sentenced to a miserable, barely existence, soul-crushing experience in a gulag.
And nowadays, it would be wrong.
Oh, don't talk about how you're persecuted as a Jew by communists.
Give me a break.
But this sneering, in particular, at Christian women, it undermines the willpower of the public to entrust media outlets that engage in that, trusting them with any of our stories about what goes on in the community.
Because when you're sneering at somebody, some people from certain religions, but don't do it to like everybody.
If you're going to make fun of everybody because you don't think that people are religious, they undermine secular society.
I don't agree with it, but it's a kind of point of view of it.
It's fair.
It's fair, at least.
Yeah, at least it's fair.
I'm no champion of conservative, I don't mean necessarily conservative party, but conservative Christian women.
I'm no champion of it.
I don't go out of my way looking for it or finding candidates to cover or interview or anything like that.
But observationally, if this was being done to Jewish candidates who are like Jewish Orthodox candidates, and for all I know, it has, and I just haven't caught it because maybe it happened to somebody in Toronto or Montreal.
Jewish community would not, believe me, Jewish businesses would start pulling their advertising to those media outlets if Orthodox women candidates started getting talked about and treated and, as I said, dampened down their public image because of this sneering from the journalistic left.
I feel sorry.
It's not right.
I feel sorry for people that have these beliefs that feel that they've got to go and then know that they're going to have to defend having them in the modern political environment.
That is certainly not what Canada is about.
And that is not the post-national state anybody would have dreamed of, that people's religion can't be worn proudly as part of who they are and what they bring to public life.
So let's move from the first black MLAs in Manitoba to our first black prime minister.
We would be remiss if we didn't talk about Justin Trudeau's blackface, blackface, blackface scandal.
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I think it's three times now that he's appeared in blackface.
That has come public.
He can't even tell us how many more times there are out there.
But you were on the ground in Winnipeg on his Blackface apology tour.
Day one.
Day one of the apology tour.
And you were there when he issued that apology about how all of us need to be better because he wore blackface.
What was that like?
Yeah, well, first of all, I don't need to be better at that subjects like that.
Thank you very much.
And neither do the rest of Canadians.
It was a fluke.
Look, the whole thing's a fluke.
Was already scheduled to be in Winnipeg at 2 p.m. on the 4, 2 p.m. on the Thursday.
I don't know what he was going to be doing in the morning.
Probably, you know, sticking his head into a daycare or something like that.
But the major event was going to be an appearance at the Grand Mosque on Waverly in South Winnipeg.
Terry Dugood's riding, if I'm remembering correctly.
And of course, Jim Carr, the regional minister, would have been there, the other candidates.
But this was to shore up Dugood, who's, I don't know if it's neck and neck.
I've heard conflicting stories, but it's generally viewed as a battle to keep that seat.
It certainly was a battle for Terry to win it.
And that was scrapped before he even got off the plane.
The two o'clock at the Grand Mosque was scrapped.
Imagine after that performance on the plane, walking into a mosque.
So it was scrapped.
And then that morning, and I was already scheduled for my annual physical downtown, and here the notice, and I think it actually might have come from you, that there was an event in downtown.
You know, it's an area that's part of the greater downtown, but it's its own special area, the Exchange District, just north of downtown.
And I get out of the doctor's office, and no bad news, thank God.
And I thought, well, I guess I can still kick these guys around for a little while still.
And I get into the car and I'm two blocks from the street that it's on and like eight blocks north.
It's like, how do I not do this?
Cut up the lane and go, and I'm like right there.
Now, the press release said the corner of King and Bannetyne.
And this went on to the Manitoba election too.
So I'm going to make a plea here for all those of you that are organizing candidates' appearances, political appearances, for crying out loud.
If something is known by a colloquial name, use it.
If it's not well known by the colloquial name, some park, then use the intersection.
But like, if it had said Old Market Square, I think that more people would have actually shown up because they would have understood that he wasn't like inside some business or warehouse or something.
I don't think they wanted more people to show up.
That's an interesting thing.
Yeah, I think they wanted just liberal partisans, liberal insiders there because the people are inconvenient right now.
Well, that day they were.
So I scooted on down there and the prime minister was fashionably late.
I was able to mingle around.
I talked with Mary Ann Mahaichuk, who was very glad to see me.
I know that this audience might find it hard to believe, but I have a lot of friendly relations for decades with many of the liberal MLAs, or MPs rather, in Manitoba.
Some of them were previously MLAs.
The MML was a city councilor.
Kevin Lamreux, Robbie Let was very helpful to me in the provincial campaign, actually.
So I have a good relationship with almost all of the liberal MLAs, MPs rather, in Manitoba from previously knowing them.
And so I was able to make the rounds and was introduced to David Aiken, who had a good laugh, I think, because of my coverage of the Manitoba election.
It was certainly not stuff that the national media would have picked up on, that local point of view.
And, you know, this is the first time, if I can give a bit of an overview of the scene, there was a lot less people than I was expecting.
I had never been around an event.
I met two prime ministers previously, Mr. Turner and Mr. Critchen.
When I think Turner was prime minister when I met him, Mr. Critchen was not.
He was the lady in waiting at the time.
But I've never seen that kind of security, which is to say essentially the Secret Service guys.
I've never seen security up on a rooftop in Winnipeg.
And like, I'm watching people craning and they're looking.
I'm going, what are they looking at?
I was like, oh, those three guys there.
And, You know, having some understanding of this kind of stuff, I scoped it out, so to speak, and they were at every exit point and entrance point.
And I made a point of thanking a couple of them because it's thankless service to do what they do and protect our national leaders.
And the way it was set up, there was like a press row right in front, and over at the microphone wasn't put like right in the middle of the field to stand.
So, you know, about 40 feet, 50 feet to the other side of the microphone, Tom Broadback of the Winnipeg Free Press, the columnist, he hits up that position.
And I take a look.
I'm staring right at Tom.
The microphone's like right between us.
I realize nobody's actually standing here at the three o'clock position, and I'm 10 feet from the microphone, so I'm not moving.
So I spoke with some of the people around me.
This is how I ascertained that there was about 35 at least Red River College journalism students there, as well as about another 70 or so, because I turned to these kids behind me who were like talking about, oh, if I stand over here, and so obviously James Turner's journalism students, and they were quite shocked that I knew James.
And the first time I met him was at a crime scene looking for, you know, any evidence the cops might have missed, blood splatters or whatever.
And I asked them, how many people here do you know?
And they told about 100.
Well, okay, and take off 100 media and the various liberals.
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And there was maybe 100 non non-affiliated, disinterested, so to speak, parties that were there.
The prime minister walked up fashionably late.
He was, you know, it was, aside from the day Pierre died or maybe the funeral, this was the worst day of his life.
I have no doubt about that.
It took about three or four remarks in before finally, when he said that he was asking for forgiveness, then he got a burst of applause.
It was small, it was light, and because I was so close to the murderer's row of MPs standing, you know, 20 feet behind him, audibly, I could pick up where the applause was coming from.
There's maybe 40 liberals in that crowd.
There was no true mania going on whatsoever.
David Aiken asked the most penetrating question.
I mean, Larry Kush, the Free Press, was, I think, up second, maybe he was first or second in Canadian press, and they tried.
But when Aiken pointed out that the job of prime minister wasn't invented for you to work out your issues, and Trudeau just obviously has never considered for a minute stepping down.
He's never considered for a minute the best interest of the party.
He's never considered for a minute the impression he has now made as our leader on the international stage by his nobody cares about what he did in high school in this matter.
It is perhaps a reflection on his parents, but as it was pointed out to me, it's probably a reflection on his nanny.
Because who knows who was taking care of him at Sean Brabuff school in Montreal when he was in grade 12.
1990, dressing up for a sketch, singing.
I don't expect him to have known better.
It is more a reflection on his parents.
Notably, when he was asked whether his father knew, he sidestepped that question for about three minutes.
And no matter how often the media in Winnipeg said, well, he was asked about what his father Pierre would have said.
And they go right to the clip, leaving out his three minutes of baffle gab.
And the fact is, he didn't really answer the question.
It is, I think, an interesting question whether his parents knew that he had a habit of dressing up in blackface to be the life of the party.
But what him doing it at the age of 29 demonstrated a real gap in his judgment.
And to have not talked about it all these years and for it not to come out in candidate vetting, that is what I think has really irked a lot of people.
That the liberals jump all over anything about any other candidate from any other party.
But when it comes to their own and their own leader, not so fast.
Brittany Hobson, I want to mention Brittany Hobson of APTN, who, as she put it, I want to change gears for a minute.
I've never seen Brittany before, I never met her.
But I have some friends over at APTN.
And she, there were some people who were angry with her because she deviated from the blackface issue and started asking about teen suicides and what the report that had just come out and what his government was going to do about it.
And what, and of course, it's all our fault, of course.
He didn't really have anything substantive to say, but she pressed him on it.
And if there was one group besides liberals or Red River College students who was well represented at this gathering of about 300 people in downtown Winnipeg, it was people of Aboriginal descent and appearance.
And that meant something to them.
You could see visibly that their issue was brought up.
It went back to the blackface business.
The only heckling, you know, it shows you how polite Winnipeg is.
There was, if Andrew Scheer had come to Winnipeg and had to deal with a similar scandal, those, you know, Antifa, all sorts of protest groups, banging pots and pans, that demonstration culture would have been out in full force, harassing Prime Minister Scheer.
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But when it's Prime Minister Trudeau, it was as polite and totally Winnipeg as could be.
When he left, he started getting the gears as he was walking out from Aboriginal activists, about 20 or 30 of them.
And it was about, you know, observe the treaties and this and that.
I, in watching it, his fielding the questions, he ended up face to face with me, which shocked me because when it was over, and you know, I kind of missed out the opportunity to crack the joke in my blog post about it.
He came to his right, like about, say, four feet, five feet in front of me, walking in line towards, I couldn't figure out, but it was there was a picnic bench in the park.
And he was looking for some guy in particular who I assumed I only got a glimpse of him.
He looked like an older Aboriginal guy, and he's calling out his name.
So here's the prime minister going, Romeo!
And I completely missed the Shakespearean show and to greet him.
And then he makes as he turns to his right, he's going to make his way out of the crowd dive.
And as he makes his way out, he's like right beside me.
I take a picture of him shaking hands with whoever this name was.
I think it might have been one of the Red River College students.
And then I'm face to face with him.
Like, he's piece hunched over, so it's no snows.
I mean, it's like Palace, they're only different.
Yeah.
And I looked at this guy, and he's aged visibly, visibly, compared to the boy Wonder that everybody got behind.
I didn't really want to do anything that was going to startle him or cause a reaction because that wasn't the day for it, considering how many, you know, we used to call them higher goons were around.
So he looks me straight in the eye and says, nice to meet you.
Well, pleasure to meet you too.
And that was that.
I could have played journalist at that moment, but I didn't think that was really a good idea.
At that moment, he wants to leave.
Let's see what happens.
In the aftermath, I talked with people afterwards, some of the MPs, I spoke with Tom Brodback of the Free Press, a few other journalists, and with a lot of liberal staffers who were just clinging to hope that this wasn't a big deal, that he was able to explain it.
As we saw that, you know, that wasn't going to work, as illustrated by Thornhill by a debate or a town hall in Thornhill.
I think it was actually that same day, the 19th, that evening.
I don't think that I don't think it worked.
What he did in Winnipeg worked.
I think that it's been proven that it didn't work.
And I repeat what I've said a number of times.
I feel sorry for my friends that are affiliated with the Liberal Party that are good people that continue to have to continue to get buried by liberal corruption and liberal nonsense.
And increasingly, a leader who just very apparently sees himself as special and doesn't realize when special stops and not being more special than the rest of us begins.
Yeah, I mean, I think there's some sense that this is his hereditary role.
Like the prime ministership is like being in the royal family, that he's inherited it, he's entitled to it, and by God, he's going to hang on to it.
But the longer he hangs on to it, the more it appears to be selfish that he will maybe, you know, from my lips to God's ears, destroy the Liberal Party on the way out the door because he refuses to relinquish power when, I mean, he really has, whether or not the Liberal Party wants to believe and whether or not Canadian voters are going to reflect that,
I think that Justin Trudeau has ultimately damaged our reputation on an international scale and our ability to negotiate and go to meetings.
Like imagine going to the G7 now or sitting down with, I don't know, the Sultan of Brunei now and representing Canada in any sort of reasonable way.
I think that ship has long since sailed.
I agree with you.
I don't measure qualifications by IQ.
And IQ can be a deceptive measure.
But he is not cut of a serious cloth or serious enough cloth to be in a position of representing our country in serious matters of economics, of international security.
He just doesn't make it.
I referenced Thornhill.
There was a town hall put on by Bnei Brith that night, and Peter Kent, the conservative incumbent, went right at them at this issue.
He brought up how a liberal candidate, thanks to B'nei Brith's research, had just been turfed.
The liberal candidate, Gary Gladstone, who I surmise is Jewish, he said he accepted Trudeau's apology and said actions speak louder than words, which, of course, that just boomerangs back on nobody, the blackface incident had nothing to do with words.
It had to do with actions.
So that really doesn't bail Justin out on that.
The Green, I want to mention one other thing in Thornhill that we'll look at at other issues relating to the federal election.
The Green Party candidate is Josh Rackless.
I'm unfamiliar with him.
He's a Toronto guy and evidently Jewish.
He's running for the Green Party in Thornhill, and he had on discussed the Problem that the Green Party has when it comes to Israel and Jewish people.
My party is wrong for voting for BDS.
I want to change that.
That is probably the single bravest statement any candidate for parliament has made thus far.
And it actually, to her credit, proves what Elizabeth May said initially when it came to the party not having a position on abortion legislation or whatever, that members are free to bring forward policy for debate.
And this is, and I discussed this with a Green candidate here in Manitoba, not a federal one, a provincial one.
That why are people complaining that a party's saying it's open to discussing things?
That every vote isn't whipped.
That maybe there should be some discussion about not to beat the drum, but Canada not having any laws pertaining to last semester abortions, we're an outlier in this world.
And that is something that needs to be genuinely discussed and evaluated.
And here's a guy where, like, can you imagine the Green Party being saying BDS is wrong?
It's like touching the third rail.
And Josh Rackless, to his credit, demonstrated that for all the wackiness around Green Party candidates and their policies, as a political party where a candidate knows they can say, I think my party's wrong, I'm going to ask my party to change.
Holy crap.
That to me is really impressive.
How big it went over in Thornhill, I'm not sure, but I thought it was notable enough that it should be mentioned.
Well, could he have said anything other than that at a benefit breadth debate?
I suppose there's plenty of left-wing Jews trying to split hairs.
Oh, BDS is only about policy.
And then they ignore the fact that it's enforced, as Joe Oliver has pointed out, it's enforced against not just disputed territories, but anything comes out of Israel.
It's not just a question of olive oil or cookies or something.
Or soda stream.
It involves science, academia, arts.
So he could have tried to split hairs, and very bravely, that young man did not.
Ultimately, in looking for the Jewish vote, the Trudeau government in trying to get re-elected, there's only that I can tell, I may have missed something, but it seems to me to most Jews, the most significant thing that they've done was not something that was really well accepted by Jews in Canada and by a lot of other people, which was restore funding to the United Nations Relief Organization, to UNRWA,
which has textbooks that are among the most vile in their refugee schools about Jews and about Israel.
The Harper government put a stop to funding that organization, and the Trudeau government restored funding to it, which is preposterous because it calls for the elimination of the state of Israel.
And here's the Liberal Party saying, well, we believe in a two-state solution, but we'll fund organizations, including from the United Nations, that don't believe in a two-state solution.
You know, go figure.
Well, I know, going back to the Green Party just for a second, they are, I suppose you do make a good point.
They are open-minded.
They are allowing debate on certain issues.
But on the other hand, it feels as though sometimes they are so open-minded that their brains have rolled right out.
They're running that Green Party candidate.
I think she's in, her name escapes me, but she's in Andrew Scheer's riding in Saskatchewan.
And she called Israel, the state of Israel is like a serial rapist, she said.
I mean, and we know that, oh, again, another name escaping me.
A Green Party candidate, perennial candidate here in Alberta, I think it was in West Yellowhead, ran repeatedly for the Green Party.
She's currently in prison in Germany for Holocaust denial.
She ran repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly for the Greens.
Never hid her track record of Holocaust denial.
She went on trial in Germany and she's in prison there.
And the Greens have never really been held to account.
There's never been a reckoning for the Greens with regard to this sort of stuff.
You know, this would be a bigger issue if they had any hope of influencing Parliament, you know.
Okay.
And it's look, it's not untypical of the far left to just have such an open tent that it ends up just having these big gusts of stupidity blow right through it.
Candidates that say things like that and are allowed to stand undermine the credibility of the leader ultimately.
The NDP's, but as we'll discuss, the NDP's got a far bigger problem.
You know, the Liberals than the Greens do.
The Liberals revoked Hassan Gillette's candidacy in Quebec.
He's still, I think, running as an independent.
He had some lovely things to say.
But there are a number of other candidates that, including liberals, that are controversial.
Samir Zubairi, who's in Pierre Fond Dollard.
This fellow was evidently involved in harassing Jewish students and pro-Israel students at Concordia University in the early 2000s.
He made at one point a remark that made it seem like he was doubting that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9-11.
He tried to walk that back.
He's, you know, worked with all faith communities.
He's responds to the rise of far-right extremism because they never recognize extremism from the left.
He trots out his token Jew as proof that he's an even-handed fellow when it comes to these matters.
It's a lesbian reform rabbi he trots out.
So she represents perhaps 15% of the views of Canadian Jews, which are by and large much more conservative and orthodox and traditional.
Most notably in the one story, and I think it was a McLean story that I found on this guy.
He was previously associated with the Council on American Islamic Relations Canada, now known as the National Council of Canadian Muslims.
Why didn't they call it Care Canada?
Oh, because then people would know what it was, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
So here's an example of a guy who's being allowed, the Zubari who's being allowed to stand.
Now, the NDP, they have damn near a caucus of anti-Semites, both incumbents and candidates running.
Miranda Gallo is a candidate in Sala Ron.
In 2016, B'nai Brith acquired a video of her in 2016 putting a boycott label of some sort, a BDS label of some sort, onto Israeli products in a store.
B'nai Brith has, as I understand it, not gotten a response with regards to whether any action will be taken by Jagmeet Singh.
Defacing a product like that is a criminal code offense.
It's been going on a lot in Toronto in the last while.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm seeing now the party said Gala is made aware of their two-state policy and she supports it, but you can't support a two-state solution and be criminally defacing Israeli products.
She's not the only one running in Montreal for the NDP.
It's got some kind of history.
Nima Sharouf and Laurier Saint-Marie is a member of the Quebec Soliditaire Party, Solidaire Party, which has officially endorsed BDS.
Her husband was a demonstrated outside a store selling Israeli footwear in 2010.
Nikki Ashton On Nakba Day00:06:55
I remember that.
He's also part of, yeah, and I didn't remember that.
I did.
Because it's like, that's pretty.
That's really small potatoes protesting shoes.
Like, what was behind that?
And I only came across this yesterday in researching for our appearance today.
So she's well tied, this candidate Sharouf, well tied to BDS.
Zaha El Masri, who's nominated in Ahunsik Kartjevil.
She's been a high-profile BDS activist for over 12 years, appeared at a conference alongside Omar Barghudi, one of the founders of BDS.
She took part in Israeli apartheid week at the University of Concordia.
So we see that she's a real friend of the Jewish people and of Canada's relationship with Israel.
There's an incumbent in Rosemond Le Petit Patri, Alexander Bolderis, who's the deputy leader for Jagmit Singh.
He's a former QP member.
So we already know which way he's going to be leaning when the wind blows.
He asked the House of Commons when there was a revamping of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement why the government rejected an NDP amendment to label products from the disputed territories.
He's, again, a BDS.
Just put a gold star on them.
Just put a gold star on them.
They'd love that.
They would.
That would make it easy for everybody.
Yeah.
And Mempi from Sherbrooke, Pierre Luca Dusaau, who's the revenue critic, he's the one that introduced the motion or introduced the petition to have CRA investigate the Jewish National Fund.
Again, the favorite topic of our friends in Antifa, Independent Jewish Voices, and all those other self-hating Jewish Marxists that have not learned the lessons of history.
But, you know, as I discussed in my notes and showed you, you know, none of this activity in terms of the NDP and candidates who cause legitimate concern among the Jewish community, Jewish citizens, Jewish voters, none of this surprise in a party led by Jagmit Singh, because while Justin Trudeau has a blind spot when it comes to blackface, Jagmit Singh has a blind spot to anti-Semites.
She just doesn't see it.
Look at Nikki Ashton.
This isn't just like a low-level problem with the NDP.
Nikki Ashton speaks at Nakba Day.
We know Nakba, that's the catastrophe.
It's, you know, it's how the BDS activists described the creation of the state of Israel, a place where Jews could always be safe.
They describe it as the catastrophe.
And that's how Nikki Ashton refers to it.
And she was very nearly the leader of that party.
Yeah, and Nikki Ashton should, you know, she should insert herself into the Nakba Day march in Toronto next year so that she can be seen with exactly the kinds of people that are affiliated with it, so that she can stand there and hear the kinds of things that come out of their mouths about Jews, about Israel, about the right of the Jewish people to a homeland, this rewriting of history,
trying to eliminate the notion there's been a continuing presence of the Jewish people, of the descendants of Abraham for 3,000 years.
Nikki Ashton should go to Nakba Day so she can be made to defend it directly.
Not saying, well, that's just what you say.
Well, I saw the video, but I wasn't.
Go.
They should all go.
They should all go and be seen for what they are when they participate in that.
And, you know, at the same time, they should be asked, what about the 800,000 Jews that were forced from their homes in the Arab countries and given nothing and have never received any reparations?
Whether it's from Yemen, whether it's from Syria, whether it's from Morocco, from the African subcontinent.
They never want to address that whatsoever.
Now, with regards to Jagmeet Singh and his blind spot to anti-Semites, there's an activist out of Toronto who on his Facebook put up a picture of him posing with a banner to save Yemeni children, which I'm sure he really cares about, with Jagmeet Singh.
And this character is Firaz, is his colloquial name, I guess.
Husseini al-Najim.
And he's invented a group called Canadian Defenders for Human Rights, CD4HR, on Facebook.
Yeah, and your squint is quite accurate because it's much the opposite.
Yeah, I was going to say that's a pretty Orwellian-sounding name.
I bet you it stands for everything opposite.
Yeah, and of course, so Jagmeet Singh would think that this is fabulous because it has the phrase human rights in it.
This fellow has taken video in the last couple of months outside Jewish synagogues, you know, like casing locations in effect.
There's a Muslim, and I don't know if Rebel covered this, Rebel Media covered this.
There's a woman in Toronto who I thought was Jewish.
It turns out that she's a lapsed Muslim who's very pro-Israel.
Yeah, I know who you're talking about.
Yeah, Solomon.
And this guy, with his kid with him, he spots her, and I don't know if he was waiting for her in whatever the supermarket is in the neighborhood.
He follows her in.
She's trying to get a card.
She's got her own kid who's like three or four.
And he's following her and berating her, taping this about being a bad Muslim and supportive, so you know, supporting baby killers or whatever he was saying.
So there have been a number of police reports made about his activities and about his language.
When this picture appeared on his Facebook, our publisher, the J.C.A. Ron East, contacted the NDP and sent an email with regards to this, an inquiry, to Jagmut Sin.
It was on September 7th.
Still no response, pointing out that he's casing that this fellow that you're pictured with, that your association is creating a wave of shock and concern within the Jewish community.
He's engaged in provocative actions, casing Jewish properties in North York, intimidating, among others, a Muslim woman who's pro-Israel.
Many of these incidents have been reported to police.
And Jagmut Sin was asked by Ron East to denounce Mr. Al-Najim and the vile anti-Semitism he stands for and ensure anti-Semitism doesn't have a home within the NDP party.
No answer from Jagmeet Singh.
Now, it's just a few days ago that Firaz, who's prone to all sorts of interesting essays on Facebook as well as videos, he goes off on Zionists, specializing accusations, divert people or the conversation from their oppression, occupation towards Palestine and Palestinians.
We'll talk about how great that occupation is working out in a minute.
Israeli Elections Uncertainty00:15:56
We swing the Israeli elections.
But at the end of his diatribe, he says, for those activists and organizations that aren't fully on board and ready for major escalations and sacrifices, we'd like to say we wish you good luck, but please don't disturb our work or try to defame it because you are not ready for real confrontations.
And that's the kind of guy that Jack Medsine will not denounce and takes photographs with.
That sounds like violent rhetoric, or at least it would be described as violent rhetoric if a conservative had said it.
That's for darn sure.
Now, no conservative that I know of in this country would say it.
Of course.
Of course.
Now, you did mention the Israeli elections.
I'm a follower of Israeli politics.
I do my very best, but they have proportional representation, and so it is an absolute zoo trying to figure out who actually won an election.
And it takes weeks to figure it out.
Can you give us a Kohl's notes version of what the heck is happening in Israel right now?
All I really understand is the Kohl's notes version.
The parliamentary system is falling apart.
You have to have a certain threshold of votes or percentage to be then able to get a seat in the Knesset.
And then that's based not on candidates running in ridings or wards or whatever.
It's based on a list.
So the parties put out a list of their top, say, 50 candidates.
And the major parties, Likud, and blue and white, they figure that the top 35-ish have a chance of becoming an MK, a member of the Knesset.
And so this system, it's become very dysfunctional because of the level of horse trading that's needed to cobble together a coalition with these other minority parties.
Now, this also creates a weakness because as part of that horse trading, if you don't have anybody high enough on your list from, say, a certain region or a certain community, I mean, it's very unlikely, because I don't know the names of small communities or smaller neighbors would be an example.
But let's say you don't have anybody on your list from Haifa, okay?
And another party does.
You need to have some sort of deal where government's got representation in Haifa.
So you're going to make a deal with the party whose number four candidate is from Haifa.
So you're cutting deals not only based on politics, but you're also cutting them on the base of making sure that you've got regional representation in your government.
I know it's not.
It's so complicated.
So unnecessarily so.
Doesn't have to be that way.
just run ridings, which for whatever reason, and I've never studied it, so I don't know why that, I mean, I could see at the beginning it wasn't highly populated.
So you go on the base of lists.
But at some point, it just seems to me this is collapsing under its own weight, as court cases do.
So what happened is the majority of the voters are Jewish.
But there is so much infighting now about these coalitions that form to prop up governments.
And the left, Labor is not immune.
They ruled Israel for the first about 30 years from Ben-Gurion on until, I guess, Menachem Begin.
The horse trading that Netanyahu and other prime ministers, in this case, Netanyahu have done, with the ultra-religious parties, where they say, yes, we'll bring our six seats to give you a majority, you know, push you over the line.
But we want the Ministry of Health or we want the Ministry of Finance to get key ministries where the policy is then dictated, literally dictated by those narrow religious interests.
So secular, The secular Jewish population in Israel has grown to a point where they don't agree that there should be no public transit.
Maybe not through certain neighborhoods.
But what do you mean you can't take a bus on Saturday?
I did not realize till this week.
Let's say one of the rebel correspondents is in Israel and ends up in the hospital, gets hit in the head with a rock, and he's there on a Shabbos, and we go.
We cannot buy food in the hospital.
The vending machines are turned off.
What kind of a.
Now, not my country.
I don't like criticizing other countries, but like, that's nuts.
The hospital is a public service that isn't denominational.
This isn't where the schools are closed because they're run by the religious Orthodox or whatever.
It says, no wonder Israelis are fed up.
You can't go visit your relatives in the hospital and bring them a tuna sandwich or a can of Dr. Pepper.
Like, that's bizarre.
And so now what is happening in these elections where nobody's gaining a clear edge is the resistance, as it were, between the secular Jewish interests that want the country to be more, as it were, liberal, less under the thumb of what are, you know, in their minds, border on Jewish mulahs, right?
How is this very different from Iran or Turkey, where Erdogan forms partnerships and suddenly becomes more and more Muslim in order to maintain power?
Well, it's hit a breaking point in Israeli society.
And this is what's happened: the Jewish vote is so polarized.
The Arab list, meanwhile, that was a coalition of all these little Arab parties.
And I don't know what all their little subtexts are, aren't, but some of them are, you know, clearly, you know, not exactly friends of a Jewish state.
But they voted as a bloc, coordinated things, and they end up with not exactly a balance of power, but with a lot of influence because the Jewish parties aren't collectively going to, you know, aren't as interested in forming a unity government as perhaps everybody wishes they were.
So one thing that's come out that's been disappointing for Ron and myself is there are a number of people, people that follow the J.C. and people that are influential in the Canadian Jewish communities, activists, that are talking about the Arab list having influence as a biblical, what's the term I'm looking for?
Like a prophecy?
Well, I think I've heard that too, actually, but I haven't caught on how, but that it's a real foreboding of bad times for the Jewish people.
And I don't think that's not right.
And that's not fair.
This is proof that the apartheid state is a failure.
This is proof of the success of the Israeli democracy in that the Arab list has, I think, they're in position for 12 seats.
And they are in a position to have a say in terms of the composition of the government.
Yeah, that's the worst.
If they're trying to apartheid everybody, they're sure doing it wrong.
The worst.
This is the worst apartheid regime.
I mean, they flunked.
They flunked the test with this election.
Now, again, with people that are concerned that this is bad, well, then I'll tell you what, it's up to Israelis to.
If you're worried about a Muslim population bomb in Israel, then there's one way to counter it.
And that is to go forth and multiply, which is what we were commanded to do.
And I suppose also, you know, for Jews in the diaspora are going to have to evaluate if they can move to Israel and how economically they can sustain themselves, et cetera.
But I don't see this as, and I'm not by any stretch hugely negative on Netanyahu.
I'm not hugely negative on Benny Gans either.
I don't care a lot.
This could have all been avoided if Lieberman's demands that the Haredim, that the ultra-Orthodox be drafted, that they have to serve in the military.
If that had been agreed to, which would have fractured Netanyahu's coalition, but would have brought other support, a lot of this wouldn't have happened.
So now Lieberman, you know, he wants that, he wants this, he wants transit on Shabbos.
Netanyahu, I think, could have avoided this by being more of a centrist and relying less on the ultra-religious for his base of support.
But lo and behold, the Arab vote was 60%.
The majority of them are committed to life in Israel under the current system.
They are not voting to overthrow the democracy.
I think a lot of people in the Jewish community misunderstand.
I think I saw a survey was it 71% of Arabs in Israel like being Israeli and wanted to stay that way.
It's up to the Jews in Israel to ensure, along with the Christian communities, to ensure that that environment is maintained so that everybody who's in Israel and values democracy and values a society where gays aren't thrown off of the tops of buildings, where people aren't hauled off and executed for being collaborators.
I think it's up to everybody that values that to grow that tent.
And I don't see this as disastrous.
I think it would be disastrous if no government can last out of this because another election in five months, it's going to make the government itself and the country itself increasingly dysfunctional.
And without a voice, one voice, whether it's Etanyahu's or Benny Gans or whoever, on the world stage, that is something that concerns all Jews in North America, certainly, that Israel sort out its political issues.
Has the era of the list, of the party list, outlived its usefulness?
As an impartial observer, I think it's on its last legs.
What Israelis themselves are going to decide, I don't know.
But they can't keep going with a system where you're trying to horse trade regional representation and religious representation into a party, into a coalition government, to cobble something together just to maintain power because it's going to start eating at the confidence Israelis have in their own society.
And in that regard, it's a difficult time.
I'm sure it can be sorted out, but some people may have to come off their pedestals a little bit.
Now, from the Israeli election, back to the Canadian election for a second.
We're about a week out of the blackface scandal, and it doesn't seem to be going away.
What is your prediction for the formation of the Canadian government right now?
I'm sure things will change and we'll see some shift in support as I'm sure other scandals will break.
I'm not sure from which parties and when, but I'm sure there's more.
What do you think?
Minority, majority, and by whom, formed by whom?
I don't see a majority government.
I don't see a majority government as being likely, although I understand there's been quite a shift in Ontario, which would bring a conservative majority.
I don't see that as being the most likely scenario.
Jagmeet Singh, I think, really shot himself in the foot by saying that he would nonetheless prop up a liberal minority government between SNC Lavalin and the black, you know, the ability, the circumstances now where Trudeau's basic qualifications, his personality, are now being called into question.
I think Jagmeet Singh shot himself in the foot by, I mean, worst negotiator on earth to give that card away.
I don't see the Green Party going beyond three or four seats, but I think more importantly, I don't see the Liberals going beyond five seats in Western Canada.
And what you mentioned earlier about this ruining the Liberal brand, that Laurentian gang, you know, they can all whoop it up at the Chateau Laurier and, you know, their own little circle jerk parties, but they are abandoning the people that identify as liberals in Western Canada, but with their behavior and with their smarmy attitude.
There are people who traditionally in the West have vacillated between liberal and conservative, depending on how red Tory they are, etc.
But if they go down to five seats in Western Canada, in no way is that a legitimate government, even if they form a majority by somehow doing well in the East.
If anything, it will fuel Western separation.
And I don't say that lightly, but it's been increasingly apparent to me the last year, year and a half in particular, but certainly the last six months, that this is something that should not be dismissed by the Eastern elite.
So I think it's possible that there will be a conservative government.
I think if any more blackface pictures come out or video, anything else like that, I think is there's no way, if that comes out, there's no way whatever standing the liberals have in the polls that day, they aren't going up from that day if there's more of this stuff.
And I am certain that there's other things that are embarrassing to the prime minister that are a reflection on poor or immature judgment that are yet to be divulged that can come out in this campaign.
I think the most likely scenario is a minority conservative government.
I can't see how the opposition parties, you know, their alternative would be to say, yeah, you know, that trying to rig a criminal prosecution of a business in his riding.
Yeah, it's not really that big of a deal.
Because I think that would really burst their balloon, their credibility in a lot of places if they propped up a Trudeau minority government.
I don't see, again, the other question is heading into the French debates is how badly is Maxime Bernier going to take this blackface club and beat on Justin Trudeau with it?
Because that, I'm not an expert, but it seems to me that that could move, I'm sure there are people in Quebec that go between the BQ, for instance, and the liberals that are, you know, Quebec-centric voters.
And it could be that Bernier is in a position where, oh, I may have done stupid things, but I never did that.
He could say that quite legitimately.
And that might affect the election because it's going to influence voters in Quebec to second-guess the Trudeau dynasty.
Maxime Bernier's Blackface Controversy00:07:50
Don't think that English media has really looked at that and wondered how does this improve Bernier's fortunes, the People's Party fortunes in Quebec.
And it may not add seats, but if it moves votes, the next thing you know, you could have conservatives, or I suppose BQ members that slide through, takes away from the Liberal ledger.
Right now, I would see a conservative minority as the most likely outcome, and especially if there's any more damage control days required for Justin Trudeau.
It's to me, it's very uphill because all the opposition parties hammer him on credibility.
They hammer him on honesty.
They hammer him on broken promises.
This isn't just the conservatives doing it.
The message that's getting the voters is from all the parties: the government is rotten, that it stinks, and we all know what you have to do with the head of the fish.
Right.
Lastly, since you've been extremely generous with your time, where do people find you, Marty?
How do they support your work?
How do they support your secular work and your work at the J.C.A. The J.C. is located online?
Concurrent with this interview, we have published a guide, in particular for Jewish voters, but there's helpful information for all voters about elections, links to Elections Canada websites.
You can find where your polling place is, advanced polling.
This year for the Jewish community, one of the days of the advanced polls falls on Sukkot, which is a holy day, and also falls on the election day itself falls on the eighth day of Sukkot, Shemini Yet Seret.
And so, Jewish voters are religious Jewish voters, of which there's a sizable number, certainly Toronto and Montreal, less so in Winnipeg and Vancouver and Calgary.
They're going to have to vote in advance.
I'm not a big fan of advanced voting by and large, but we provided a story that demonstrates the links, the qualifications to vote as a public service, so to speak.
But those who are not Jewish, those links are, you know, again, for polling places and the dates.
So you can go to the J.C. and there's links on our website tabs with regards to sponsorship, with regards to advertising.
For me personally, the Great Canadian Talk Show is my news blog, tgcts.com online.
Still banned by Facebook for reasons unknown, but the workaround is working so far so good.
I was very pleased with the level of support that I got.
A couple of whom did reference my appearances here on the gun show, and I appreciate it.
I'm hoping that more people will see the value in having independent Manitoba coverage of the federal election and of the candidates.
And I'll carry on through this.
And I don't know if, I don't know how many more elections I've got in me in my guise as a reporter and commentator, but I'm proud of the work that I did in the Manitoba election.
I can tell you that Trudeau story about day one of damage control, there are a lot of very recognizable, influential, high-level people from the world of diplomacy, from the world of politics, the world of media, that liked seeing a story from somebody on the ground who isn't part of the Ottawa Press Corps, doesn't live in that bubble.
I mentioned a few things that I thought were, you know, he walked around actually discussing whether his father knew about his costumed antics.
Nobody had the balls to ask him whether his mother knew about this or when.
He did not mention his wife, and I would have thought that in an apology about how you've embarrassed yourself and your party, and I talked about it with my kids, you would have thought he would have mentioned his wife and he didn't, which I thought was very significant.
I'm just saying, it seems like I'm the only commentator person in attendance that noticed that.
But the response was probably my most widely circulated story, maybe by certain metrics of all time.
Certainly, I reached an audience that was Canada-wide and worldwide, and people found value in the perspectives I brought of a Jewish guy from the North End.
And as I said, you know, the course of our lives brought Justin Trudeau and I together in the same place at the same time.
But he had some explaining to do, and I had a clean bill of health.
So that's what the preamble was to that.
Oh, that's great, Marty.
Marty, I want to thank you for being extremely generous with your time and your unique on-the-ground perspective from Winnipeg.
Hopefully, we can catch up with you in a couple of weeks, sometime after the election.
And we'll see.
Maybe we can get him before the election if something oddball happens.
I know the Rebel media is going to be having some people come through here during the course of the campaign.
And I look forward to meeting with whoever comes by to visit and seeing just what kind of hard questions can be asked that politicians start to squirm when they hear them and start looking for an exit.
I've seen some really good work on the Rebel during this campaign, some excellent work by yourself, and I don't want to leave anybody out.
Menzies has been doing great.
Oh, he's great.
Keen is certainly in a groove, and it's important that these kinds of outlets, the ones that don't get media accreditation, the ones that are treated like they aren't really journalists.
We know what journalism is nowadays.
And for those that don't want to tow a party line, that don't want to tow, you know, that don't come at everything swinging, you know, like Carl Yostromsky from the left, there's got to be something for the rest of the public.
And that's the role that we fill in the election coverage coming from Rebel TV has been literally, it's a highlight every day to see what is covered, what is brought up, what is unearthed.
And I do my part in a similar vein here out of Winnipeg.
And I look forward to hearing from your audience.
If anybody has any story tips or any issues, by all means, get a hold of me.
For right now, I'm going to stay the course in political reporting and such things.
And as often as you'll have me on, I'll be here to do what I can to enlighten everybody about what goes on here in Manitoba Stand, as we used to call it under the NDP.
But as Pallister has said frequently, blue skies are blue skies every day here in Manitoba.
And it's a much, much different place now than it was under the Selinger regime.
And we'll see what federal regime takes hold here in a few weeks' time.
Thanks, Marty.
Have a great day.
And again, thanks for your generosity with your time.
Thank you, Sheila.
Here's what I think is going to happen in the remaining few weeks of this election campaign.
There are likely even more scandals about to be revealed about Justin Trudeau, but that won't necessarily mean the end of Justin Trudeau.
That will just mean that the liberal-approved media is going to come at the Conservative Party even harder to deflect away from their boy prince's self-inflicted problems.
You see, for the media, it's just self-preservation.
People just aren't buying the garbage they're selling anymore.
So they have to get that bailout from Justin Trudeau.
So they have to get Justin Trudeau reelected at all costs, even if it costs Canadian unity.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.